Mortality trend among hemodialysis patients during the islamic month of Ramadan: a 24 years retrospective study.

The effect of month of Ramadan on the mortality in hemodialysis patients, and to compare it with that in all other Islamic months.A descriptive study.Hemodialysis Unit, The Kidney Center, Karachi, from January 1989 to December 2012.All those patients who were diagnosed to have end stage kidney disease and on maintenance hemodialysis for more than 3 months, regardless of underlying cause of kidney failure were included. Patients with acute kidney...